[Rpm-metadata] files listings

Peter Bowen pzb at ximian.com
Thu Oct 23 02:29:57 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 19:03, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> The XML standard defaults to Unicode, and any Unicode encoding should be
> easy to convert to and from UTF-8; could we just specify that
> non-Unicode data be translated into Unicode before putting it in the
> metadata file?

Unfortunately RPM doesn't have any way to specify the charset being
used.  So things like the package descriptions can be in any charset.

Thanks.
Peter




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